Hosea 8

8 `Unto thy mouth -- a trumpet, As an eagle against the house of Jehovah, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled. [the law]

1“Put a shophar to your mouth, like an eagle against the House of יהוה, because they have transgressed My covenant, and they have rebelled against My Torah.

^2 ^To Me they cry, `My God, we -- Israel -- have known Thee.'

^3 ^Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him.

^4 ^They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off.

^5 ^Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?

^6 ^For even it [is] of Israel; an artificer made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!

^7 ^For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.

^8 ^Israel hath been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.

^9 ^For they -- they have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have hired lovers!

^10 ^Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.

^11 ^Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.

^12 ^I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned. [the law]

12“I have written for him numerous matters of My Torah – they were regarded as strange.

^13 ^The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They -- [to] Egypt they turn back.

^14 ^And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!